Personality Test

 

Why do people take personality tests?
A lot of times when sitting in a psychology or speech class your teacher will ask you to take a personality test to find out what kind of person you are in regards to the worlds definition of the different kinds of personalities. Many times these are also used to see if your personality can be realistically portrayed by using a website to generate a result that is accurate to your actual behavior and personality. Often times these are helpful for people because it can tell them how they will react to certain things that happen to them or how they will get along with a person of a different personality type. It can help you understand why you act the way you do and why you react to certain things in certain ways. Personality tests are done to help someone figure out how to more efficiently do life because they know themselves on a deep level and can play to their strengths in order to be successful in life in all dimensions.

Why do I care?
I recently took a personality tests called The Big Five, it determined that each person has five key personality dimensions and each person has a percentage of each. They are Extroversion, Orderliness, Emotional Stability, Accommodation,and Inquisition and each is considered to be a personality trait of every person. When I took the test my results were as follows:
Extroversion: 44%
Orderliness: 54%
Emotional Stability: 62%
Accommodation: 56%
Inquisition: 42%
Each trait percentage means something different creating the make up of each persons personality, mine came out to mean that I have a relatively low extroversion score so I'm a private person. My orderliness score was fairly medium meaning I'm moderately organized. The highest score I got was emotional stability which means I'm relaxed and calm. Accommodation was medium as well portraying that I have a martyr complex often times. Finally my inquisition score was my lowest score meaning I can sometimes be small minded.

How do I feel about this?
To me these tests can either be very accurate or very wrong when portraying a persons personality. This test I think was decently accurate in describing me, however, some points were off when it came to a couple of the descriptions. I personally think that I'm similar enough to these results that I would say this website and personality test is accurate enough that you can get a test result that will help you figure out what kind of person you are. I think my results were interesting to see because I don't always pay attention to how I act or the tendencies that I have so these tests make me think about all of the things that I do on a normal basis.